Elmira Spring Meeting --- Program
Elmira Spring Meeting --- Program
PROGRAM
SEAWAY SECTION
MATHEMATICAL ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA
Spring Meeting
April 12-13, 1996
Elmira College
Elmira, New York
PROGRAM
- Friday Afternoon, Holiday Inn - Riverview, Elmira
- 4:00 - 6:00
- Meeting of the Executive Committee, Conference Room TBA (2nd floor)
- Friday Evening, Holiday Inn - Riverview, Elmira
- 6:00 - 7:00
- Social Hour (cash bar), Banquet Room (2nd floor)
- 7:00 - 8:30
- Dinner, Banquet Room (2nd floor)
- 8:30 - 8:45
- Presentation of The Seaway Section Distinguished Teaching Award
- 8:45 - 9:35
- Curriculum Reform: Paradigm Shifts Affect the
Students, the Faculty, the Department,
the Universe,... and Everything Else!
- Barbara E. Reynolds,SDS, Cardinal Stritch College
and Brown University
- Saturday Morning, Gibson Theater, Emerson Hall
- 08:00 - 11:00
- Registration and Refreshments, Gibson Theater Lobby
- 08:40 - 08:45
- Welcome, Bryan Reddick, Dean of Faculty, Elmira College
- 08:45 - 09:35
- After a Decade of Calculus Reform, are we at the End or the Beginning?
- John Kenelly, Clemson University, Past Member Finance
Committee of the MAA
- 09:45 - 10:35
- Computing with DNA,
- Tom Head, SUNY at Binghamton
- 10:35 - 11:00
- Business Meeting
- 11:10 - 12:00
- Harry M. Gehman Lecture: Mathematical Aspects of Bubbly Flows,
- Donald Drew, RPI
- 12:00 - 01:30
- Saturday Lunch, Dining Hall (2nd floor), Campus Center
- Saturday Afternoon, Gibson Theater, Emerson Hall
- 1:30 - 02:20
- Panel Discussion on Calculus Reform
- Panelists:
- John Kenelly, Clemson University, Chair
- Charlie Jacobson, Elmira College
- Emelie Kenney, Siena College
- Karen Kimber, Broome Community College
- Barbara Reynolds, Cardinal Stritch College
- Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 12, Second Floor
- 2:30 - 5:00
- Workshop: Calculus and the TI-92
- Sally Fischbeck, Rochester Institute of Technology
- Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 4, First Floor
- 2:30 - 2:55
- Calculus Reform in a Traditional Mode,
- Grace Orzech, Queen's University
- 3:00 - 3:25
- Group Projects in Calculus,
- Stuart Boersma, Alfred University,
Project NExT Fellow
- 3:30 - 3:55
- Workshop Approaches to Teaching Calculus and
Precalculus - A SUNY Coalition
- Robert Rogers, SUNY at Fredonia, and Terry Tiballi,
SUNY at Oswego
- 4:00 - 4:25
- Why not Reform the Courses before Calculus?
- Jean Krichbaum and Mary Woestman, Broome Community
College
- Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 3, First Floor
- 2:30 - 2:55
- A MAPLE Driven Differential Equations Course,
- Constant Goutziers, SUNY at Oneonta
- 3:00 - 3:25
- Reconstructing a Function from a Few Points,
- Constance Elson and Micah Schmidt, Ithaca College
- 3:30 - 3:55
- Reverse Mathematics or How Complicated is my Theorem,
- Reed Solomon, Cornell University
- 4:00 - 4:25
- Generating Solutions for a Special Class of Diophantine
Equations,
- Pasquale Arpaia, St. John Fisher College
- Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 14, Second Floor
- 2:30 - 2:55
- The Mathematical Experience: A Writing Intensive
Liberal Arts Course,
- Cheri Boyd, Nazareth College, Project NExT Fellow
- 3:00 - 3:25
- Humanistic Mathematics,
- Kazem Mahdavi, SUNY at Potsdam
- 3:30 - 3:55
- Mathematical Dialogues as a Technical Tool,
- Morris Orzech, Queen's University
- 4:00 - 4:25
- Constructing Spreadsheets to Learn Mathematics,
- Charlie Jacobson, Elmira College
- Saturday Afternoon, Harris Hall 15, Second Floor
- Student Talks
- Organized by Robert Rogers, SUNY at Fredonia (rogers@cs.fredonia.edu)
- 2:30 - 2:55
- Qualitative Analysis of Dynamic Systems,
- Philip Darcy, St. Bonaventure University
- 3:00 - 3:25
- Symmetric Attractors in 3-Space,
- Benton McCune, SUNY at Binghamton
- 3:30 - 3:55
- A Characterization of Complete Metacyclic Groups
and GAP,
- Jason Leasure, SUNY at Binghamton
- 4:00 - 4:25
- TBA
- Saturday Afternoon, Student Lounge, Harris Hall, First Floor
- 4:30
- Refreshments
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